X-shooter: Backbone and UV-Blue and Visible spectrographs. Final AIV and Measured Performance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7014, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Rasmussen, Per Kjærgaard ^a   Zerbi, Filippo M ^b,c   Dekker, Hans ^c   Vernet, Joel ^c   Andersen, Jeppe J ^a   Caprio, Vincenzo De ^d   Dimarcantonio, Paolo ^e   D'Odorico, Sandro ^c   Lizon, Jean Louis ^c   Lucuix, Christian ^c   Michaelsen, Niels ^a   Molinari, Emilio ^b   Nørregaard, Preben ^a   Riva, Alberto ^b   Riva, Marco ^b   Santin, Paolo ^e   Sørensen, Anton N ^a   Spanò, Paolo ^b   Wistisen, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BRERA   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^d INAF IASF MILANO   (Italy)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

ESO VLT; Faint object spectroscopy; Medium resolution spectrograph

Indexed keywords

ESO VLT; FAINT OBJECT SPECTROSCOPY; MEDIUM RESOLUTION SPECTROGRAPH; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; PARANAL; SECOND GENERATION; SINGLE OBJECT; STABILITY RESULTS; TESTING PHASE; WIDE-BAND; X-SHOOTER;

ASTROPHYSICS; INSTRUMENTS; LIGHT; OPTICAL TESTING;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 66249148450     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788745     Document Type: Conference Paper

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